User:David Fern

I am a seasoned software professional with more than 12 years of experience creating software requirements, developing, testing and maintaining software and hardware in large enterprise systems.

My true concentration is breaking software in the public and private industry. Currently I am an IT Specialist and Testing Technical Lead at a federal government agency.

I have developed and implemented software-testing strategies for large government Internet application deployments as well as enterprise wide Point of Sale (POS) systems in the private sector. You have probably visited some of the stadiums, airports, hotels and casinos where I set up or maintained systems.

I am most proud of my development and implementation of a Software Assurance program including penetration and security testing for agency Internet applications.

For the last 4 years, I have been a volunteer leading teams from across the country looking for model organizations as an Examiner for both the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality (MBNQ) Program and the Maryland Performance Excellence Award (MPEA) Program. Our task was to determine how mature an organization is by evaluating the organizations processes and results against the Baldrige Criteria.